2017 Azbee Awards of Excellence
Category
Online > Blog - Analysis/Commentary > Upper Midwest
Awarded to
Casey Flaherty, Contributing Blogger; Patrick Lamb, Contributing Blogger; Sarah Mui, Assistant Managing Editor
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The New Normal
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Publication name: ABA Journal
Publishing company: American Bar Association
Website home page: www.abajournal.com
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The ABA Journal is the flagship magazine of the American Bar Association, covering the trends, people and finances of the legal profession and the broader legal services industry.
As a leading voice in legal media, the Journal provides a forum online and in print for the free expression and interchange of ideas. The Journal reports objectively on timely, relevant issues of interest and importance to lawyers and the legal services industry. Readership includes the 400,000 members of the American Bar Association and readers of ABAJournal.com, which is available for free to the public.
Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:
The Legal Rebels blog at ABAJournal.com, and specifically its New Normal column, is where industry thinkers discuss changes—often technology-driven—occurring in the delivery of legal services and legal education. Among the blog’s contributors is legal operations consultant Casey Flaherty, who with week after week of illustrative examples urges lawyer-readers to confront the fact that technology and metrics is changing how law is practiced. Another entry is from founding New Normal contributor Patrick Lamb, a partner with Valorem Law Group who has written a book about alternative fee arrangements. He wrote a timely column in 2016 that was cited on other legal blogs that questioned the wisdom of a wave of salary increases for first-year associates at large law firms.
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http://www.abajournal.com/legalrebels/article/operating_beyond_the_billable_hour
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The New Normal
Category
Online > Blog - Analysis/Commentary > Upper Midwest
Description
Publication name:
ABA Journal
Company:
American Bar Association
Winner Status
- Regional Bronze Award
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